oiled

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oiled

adjective more oiled · most oiled

Covered in, or supplied with, oil. an oiled machine
Similar: oily, oleose
slang Drunk. Usually in conjunction with an adverb of degree. I got well oiled last night.
Similar: oiled up, lubricated, lubed, lubed up, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of oil

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: lubricated, clingfilm, blotto, polluted, contaminated, bribed, oily, oilclothed, oillike, unctuous, oilish, lubed, greasy, oleaginous, olive oily, olive-oily

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@misc{oiled_2026,
  title = {oiled},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oiled},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}